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Oct. 4th, 2019 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynNext flying lesson is on the 17th, at 7 PM. My instructor doesn't have much night availability, I don't know about flying at night with any of the other instructors, and the 10th is out of the question because I have tickets for a theater showing of the original Ghostbusters movie that night.
I feel a bit guilty for not flying between now and then, but my solo endorsement expired when I couldn't go to flight lessons because of the emergency vet, and other than practicing emergency procedures there's not much point to booking a daytime lesson with my instructor. I'll see if I can get my instructor to sign off on a new solo endorsement after the night flight and get my full set of hours that way.
I'm getting very close to checkride time- I'll have to put in some extra hours to get everything up to snuff before they test me, and I have to pass the written with a grade of 85% or higher. (The school won't let me take the test without passing practice exams at 90%, but FAA standards are a little lower.) I had to buy new glasses recently and showed a friend my new frames when I got them. He asked, "Why didn't you get aviator glasses? You are."
I hadn't really thought of it that way, but he was right. It's kind of interesting to realize that. And to be able to say "yeah, I do" when someone sees the Boston Helicopters baseball cap I got from the flight school* and asks if I actually fly helicopters, even if I immediately have to follow it with a disclaimer about not having a commercial certificate yet.
*Mostly for flight time, to reduce incoming sun glare, but I like wearing hats ever since working for the Red Cross. This cap doesn't endorse the wrong sports team, doesn't look like a tourist trying to endorse the right sports team the wrong way, doesn't give off a political vibe, and unlike the blank one I bought with the intention of attaching a Robinson Helicopters R22 patch to, actually fits**.
**If you pay five dollars for it at the convenience store, the 'one size fits all' tag is probably more like 'one size fits most, but not you with the thick skull'.
I feel a bit guilty for not flying between now and then, but my solo endorsement expired when I couldn't go to flight lessons because of the emergency vet, and other than practicing emergency procedures there's not much point to booking a daytime lesson with my instructor. I'll see if I can get my instructor to sign off on a new solo endorsement after the night flight and get my full set of hours that way.
I'm getting very close to checkride time- I'll have to put in some extra hours to get everything up to snuff before they test me, and I have to pass the written with a grade of 85% or higher. (The school won't let me take the test without passing practice exams at 90%, but FAA standards are a little lower.) I had to buy new glasses recently and showed a friend my new frames when I got them. He asked, "Why didn't you get aviator glasses? You are."
I hadn't really thought of it that way, but he was right. It's kind of interesting to realize that. And to be able to say "yeah, I do" when someone sees the Boston Helicopters baseball cap I got from the flight school* and asks if I actually fly helicopters, even if I immediately have to follow it with a disclaimer about not having a commercial certificate yet.
*Mostly for flight time, to reduce incoming sun glare, but I like wearing hats ever since working for the Red Cross. This cap doesn't endorse the wrong sports team, doesn't look like a tourist trying to endorse the right sports team the wrong way, doesn't give off a political vibe, and unlike the blank one I bought with the intention of attaching a Robinson Helicopters R22 patch to, actually fits**.
**If you pay five dollars for it at the convenience store, the 'one size fits all' tag is probably more like 'one size fits most, but not you with the thick skull'.
